adjectives (good-bad).

nouns (death-life).

verbs (borrow-lend).

prepositions (above-below).

it is likely that the French word has a negative connotation.

it is likely that the OE word will be more colloquial.

it is likely that the French word will be more colloquial.

it is likely that the OE word has a negative connotation.

differ in their connotation – ‘traverse’ connotes a degree of haste.

do not differ in any significant respect – they are true synonyms.

differ in their level of formality – ‘cross’ is less formal.

belong to different dialects of English – ‘traverse’ is used in American English.

strict synonyms.

antonyms.

loose synonyms.

homonyms.

are true synonyms – there is no difference in meaning when you compare them.

are loose synonyms, which means that synonymy is uneconomical.

overlap in meaning but cannot substitute for each other in all contexts.

are completely interchangeable in all their possible contexts of use.

synonyms that differ in their connotation - 'havoc' has a positive meaning.

homonyms because they have the same meaning and different forms.

antonyms because they mean the opposite.

synonyms because of their equivalence in meaning.

positive, neutral and

negative (in this order).

neutral.

positive or negative.

negative, neutral and

positive (in this order).

ambiguity: it shows that the

lexeme ‘bank’ has more than one meaning.

vagueness: it shows

that the meaning of ‘bank’ is vague.

synonymy: it shows that

the two ‘banks’ in the utterance are synonymous.

non-sensical

utterances: the sentence makes no sense.

two of its denotative meanings.

two of its peripheral senses.

homonymy.

two of its

connotative meanings.

It has seven different etymologies.

It is polysemous.

It is highly idiomatic.

It has seven homonyms.